Thread: Why I Voted For Barack Obama

Originally Posted by THE_Ted

I've read The Fountainhead four times and I voted for Barack Obama.

Originally Posted by Miltonite

Originally Posted by THE_Ted

I voted for Barack Obama

I think this is enough to warrant a "oh hell no vote" but I am gonna wait till I play a round or two with him.

I put that sentence into my application to the Illuminati as a joke, as something funny to put in an application to a gaming community. I was accepted into the clan, and this is not about that or Miltonite, it is merely a launching pad for me to rant. This is why I voted for Barack Obama.

Something to keep in mind.

You have to respect the second largest pillar of moral authority on the planet Earth. You just have to. Oh wait, this religion that represents 20% of the planet has inspired a minority of a crazy people to kill other people/themselves? Yeah let's not go there.

I think the car company bailouts where bad ideas, and I believe that a large part of the blame for this recession was governmental interference in the housing market. But an economy is something I can fix, a crappy socialized medical system is something that can be repealed, and 'socialism' is so laughably pathetic if it actually became a 'serious' threat to American political thought I could defeat it with my eyes closed. What I can't fix is a world that hates America for being hypocritical, condescending, and disrespectful. Concessions Obama might make to appease his base, redistributions of wealth to the poor, and damage to the economy can only hurt America; they are just weights strapped to our back, and if they were to become benchmarks for future policies then yes they would eventually crush us, but for now I say 'whatever'. The time is not yet here for Atlas to shrug, far from it. Let him hurt the economy, it won't die; it will need a detox and a diet down the line, but its needed that for a long time. The speech Obama made yesterday is the kind of rhetoric Napoleon Bonaparte would use towards the Muslim world, in fact it IS the kind of rhetoric he DID use. THE Ted approves.

I'm not trying to be a dick or a racist, but this is the cold hard truth, a large part of why Obama won was because of his ethnicity. I'm sorry but it's true, everyone knew he'd win before the election took place.

Well I tell ya.. the reason I voted for Obama is... oh shit I forgot, I didn't vote for him. Democrats or Republican, doesn't matter anyway. I won't highjack this thread tho...

Obee is the Jimmy Carter lesson for this generation, just hang on.

Well, McCain was worse then Obama.


That's my input.

Originally Posted by Watsyurdeal?

I'm not trying to be a dick or a racist, but this is the cold hard truth, a large part of why Obama won was because of his ethnicity. I'm sorry but it's true, everyone knew he'd win before the election took place.

I am sorry but I disagree.

I was actually worried he might not win because of his race. There are many people who make assumptions about people because of their race. Things like "he only won because of his race" is one of those assumptions I am talking about. And those people probably did not vote for him, because they make assumptions about race.

Personally I think his charisma, the well defined economic policies he put forwad from the beginning, the no BS taking a different approach rather than "staying the course" attitude he takes, and the effort that earned him a JD from Harvard is what made him win.

I think if McCain had won, it would be mostly because of his race.